From Penn St. University: When readers access a story from a credible news source they trust through an online portal, they also tend to trust the portal, said S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor of Communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory. Most of these portals use computers, not people, to automatically sort and [...]
New Article: "Mobile information literacy: Let’s use an app for that!"
Filed by on January 19, 2012
Title Mobile information literacy: Let’s use an app for that! Authors Stefanie Havelka Lehman College, City University of New York Alevtina Verbovetskay Lehman College, City University of New York Source C&RL News (January 2012, vol. 73 no. 1 From the Intro While at the reference desk, have you ever had a student thrust her phone [...]
Listen Online: Dr. Alison Head on Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age
Filed by on January 17, 2012
Dr. Alison Head from Project Information Literacy recently spoke at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. An audio file of her presentation is now available online. Here’s the Blurb: What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head — lead researcher for the national study, Project Information [...]
Google's Usability Chief On Ideas Having to Be Discoverable and Use "Control F"
Filed by on November 29, 2011
In a New Scientist article, Google’s Dan Russell talks about his job, discoverability of ideas, and more. Dan also mentions a super interesting fact that we’ve heard from him before (it’s worth repeating) and something that many of us have shared during presentations for years, the POWER of the Control+F (find) feature. It’s one of [...]
Full Text Book: Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers
Filed by on November 17, 2011
Their is NO charge to download the full text of the following book. Title: Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers Authors: Carolyn Wilson, Alton Grizzle, Ramon Tuazon, Kwame Akyempong, and Chi-Kim Cheung Publisher: UNESCO Year: 2011 192 Pages (PDF) 978-92-3-104198-3 ISBN Direct to Full Text (PDF) From the UNESCO Web Site: It [the book] [...]
"How to Use PLoS’s Advanced Search Function" by Michael Morris
Filed by on October 31, 2011
From a PLOS Blogs Post by Michael Morris: At PLoS, we’re dedicated to the tenet of Open Access, making academic literature widely available on the web. However, with an ever-growing pool of scientific literature, our goals have to consider not only making content available, but also accessible. With the breadth of articles we aggregate, you [...]
New Report from RIN: "Research Supervisors and Information Literacy"
Filed by on October 31, 2011
Recently released report from the UK’s RIN (Research Information Network): From Summary/News Release: Research supervisors can play a crucial role in the effective imparting of relevant skills, knowledge and understanding. But in reality, they often are not able, well-equipped or even predisposed to play such a role. RIN’s Mind the Skills Gap report pointed to [...]
A New Guide from the Digital Curation Centre: How To Cite Datasets and Link to Publications
Filed by on October 26, 2011
Well done! This guide includes material for researchers, data repositories, and others. It includes examples, hyperlinked footnotes, additional resources. Title: How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications Authors: Alex Ball (Digital Curation Centre) and Monica Duke (Digital Curation Centre) Source: DCC This guide will help you create links between your academic publications and the [...]
New PIL Report: "How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library During Crunch Time"
Filed by on October 13, 2011
UPDATE: Analysis and Commentary Barbara Fister from Library Journal A new report from the Project Information Literacy team at the University of Washington Information School. From the UW iSchool Web Site: Findings from Project Information Literacy’s (PIL’s) latest research study found college students — only weeks away from final exams and in the library — [...]
